Honduras

Today we took a walking tour of our hotel's neighborhood in San Salvador, and visited a couple shops where tortillas and the local staple, pupusa's, were being made.

Pupusaria

We then visited Joya de Ceren, a UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the "Pompeii of the Americas." This is an archaeological dig of a Mayan village that was covered with volcanic ash and preserved intact. Quite fascinating!

Just a small portion of Joya de Ceren.

The rest of the day was on the bus. We crossed from El Salvador into Guatemala, and then from Guatemala into Honduras. Our guide, who is Guatemalan, gave us a long history of the Salvadoran civil war in the 1980s. He was clearly unhappy that the Socialists are the majority party now, introducing radical stuff like free public education and universal health care.

A family selling produce from their pickup truck on a city street in San Salvador.

But we noticed that the roads were new, smooth, super-highways in El Salvador, and nicely paved in Honduras, but really terrible with pot holes and trash in the ditches in Guatemala.

Squatters live (and hang out their laundry) in a San Salvador cemetery.
At least the neighbors are quiet.

I'm relaxing with one of the local beers that sell for 75 cents. You get what you pay for. Also, the electrical power seems to go out a lot here. Hope this gets posted.